Women creators of Latin American electronic literature: a geographical overview

Abstract

In this article, I present a geographical overview of women creators of Latin American electronic literature. My research is based on an initial survey of works included in different international databases and collections. A series of interviews with the artists was conducted as part of the research. Additionally, I have created a histogram with a dataset of 43 women creators in order to identify potential relations between their country of birth, the year of creation of their first work and the technological tools they used. The overview has shed light on the first women translators of electronic literature in Latin America (English into Portuguese) and on the first e-lit works written in languages (English and French) other than Spanish and Portuguese. Overall, the work presented here acts as a first attempt towards documenting the contribution of Latin American women to electronic literature.

Keywords

• electronic literature
• women
• latin american
• digital creation